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Three years ago, the global auto industry was gripped by a collective hallucination.

Mesmerized by Tesla's trillion-dollar valuation, traditional carmakers convinced themselves and their investors

that they were just one battery factory away from their stocks trading at similar multiples.

Volkswagen promised that 70% of its European sales would be electric by 2030, a figure they

later bumped up to 80%. Stilantis went further, pledging a 100% transition. Even General Motors, a company not historically known for

rash technological bets, set a 2035 deadline to abandon the eternal combustion engine entirely.

Those promises were easy to make a few years ago, when interest rates were zero and

politicians were writing

checks. They're much harder to keep today. The reality check arrived this autumn with brutal

clarity. In September, Donald Trump abruptly withdrew the $7,500 consumer tax credit, a subsidy that often tipped the economic scales in favor of going electric.

Combined with his rollback of emissions regulations, the artificial floor supporting the

U.S. electric vehicle market has effectively collapsed. Across the Atlantic, the retreat is different in mechanism, but identical

in direction. The European Commission, bowing to intense pressure from its auto manufacturers,

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